[Blind-rollers] Colisions

Wed Aug 22 22:00:24 CDT 2007

No my dog wasn't doing that, always with me at all times.
I knew then what was happening with him.
No accidents where they don't need to be rite?
Doggie accidents you know what I mean?

--Dar
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
To: "Blind wheelchair users list" <blind-rollers at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] Colisions

> Well, in my case it wasn't rudeness--i always was quite apologetic, and
> indeed my manual chair does not make much noise.  It makes me wonder how
> many sighted employees jumped out of my way and I didn't even know it.
> When I was in school and still able to walk I collided with another blind
> person twice.  One of these was when we were walking down the same 
> sidewalk
> in opposite directions--thinking back, I think he was on the wrong side as 
> I
> stayed to the right).
> Anyway, I was able to see a tiny bit and his body came in view--looked 
> like
> a big nondescript mass-and I assumed this person would see my white cane 
> and
> step to one side, but indeed he proceeded to our collision with full speed
> and by the time I knew he was blind there was no way to avoid it.
> Since I have brittle bones I was quite afraid of fractures, and should not
> have been walking at that time on campus.  But you know college--if you 
> want
> to get something done you gotta take risks.
>
> Anyway, I finally fell down a flight of stairs on a later occasion and
> totaled myself and took an early graduation and quit school for a few
> months.  Then went back in the wheelchair for good, and managed to be
> independent by hiring people to help when I needed it, and using 
> paratransit
> to get around.
>
> Well, enough of that.  The adventures of hiring aids I'm sure you are
> familiar with.
>
> That is funny about your dogs.  Guess wheelchair people can be rude like 
> the
> rest of the population, but they can't always afford to be rude as we all
> never know when we need a hand...  Were your dogs ever tresspassing in his
> personal space (around his apartment that is)?
> Just a thought.
> Really inconsiderate upsetting someone's guide dog.
> Take care.
> --le
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "dmgina" <dmgina at qwest.net>
> To: "Blind wheelchair users list" <blind-rollers at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] Colisions
>
>
> Well speeding down a path shouldn't happen at a work place.
> I am sure your chair made some kind of noise, and I would have said hello.
> but out of kindness both of you should have stopped until the other one 
> got
> by.
> I lived in a building with wheel chair persons,
> One guy kept trying to hit my dogs paws with his chair.
> I picked him up out of the chair and sat him on the ground.
> I tell you the adrenalin was moving that day.
> He sat on the ground for a half hour before anyone picked him up.
> He never went after my dogs again.
> I was waiting for him to take me to court, and I would have stood up for 
> my
> dog.
> there is no excuse for rudeness.
>
> --Dar
> www.mypowermall.com/biz/home/5779
> Every Saint has a past
> Every Sinner has a future
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1 at carolina.rr.com>
> To: "Blind wheelchair users list" <blind-rollers at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] Colisions
>
>
>> Hi Carrie and all -- I should probably have mentioned that the collisions
>> almost always took place on a narrow ramp connecting 2 buildings.  There
>> was
>> only a narry carpet on which the other woman preferred walking, and where
>> I
>> also preferred riding as I had good traction there, so although there was
>> room to step to one side or the other, we often met in the middle as I 
>> was
>> speeding down and she was walking up.  (Obviously not the other way
>> around...lol)
>> It was quite a conflict and one that caused embarrassment for both of us.
>> I
>> thought she didn't need to escalate to my supervisor though--we could 
>> have
>> just met and worked it out, but you know how conflicts are.
>> I would have felt awful if she had been injured as I injure easily 
>> myself,
>> but unfortunately too often at work it's everyone for him/herself.
>> --le
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Michael Russillo" <petlonann at samobile.net>
>> To: <blind-rollers at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 10:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Blind-rollers] Colisions
>>
>>
>> Hi Kerry.  Speaking of that subject, I use a light wheelchair which I
>> can push with my feet, so for instance at work where there are several
>> other blind people, I stay by a wall when going down a hall to make
>> sure another blind person doesn't crash into me.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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